Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Carl Sandburg More Quotes by Carl Sandburg More Quotes From Carl Sandburg I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days. Carl Sandburg nouns adjectives verbs Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. Carl Sandburg gossip puppets sea Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. Carl Sandburg chicago cities player Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Carl Sandburg Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why do those outside want to get in?What is this crying inside and out all the time?What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage? Carl Sandburg Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. Carl Sandburg In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody Carl Sandburg In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. Carl Sandburg Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg The republic is a dreamNothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg your yourself down love All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. Carl Sandburg principle actions human failure All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandburg politicians ring talk through To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. Carl Sandburg die work-hard hell work
